3  Intro to GitHub

• GitHub is a Git web server, there are others e.g., GitLab

• Your repositories will be stored on GitHub, and you will clone them to your machine to work on them (or work on them in Gitpod)

• Under your user account you see the repos you are owner of

• On GitHub OpenSAFELY is an organization

  • The repos are owned by the organization so they are under the organisation here

    

3.1 GitHub PAT for R

• To create a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) to be allowed more downloads from GitHub per hour run in R

  install.packages("usethis")
  library(usethis)
  create_github_token()

3.2 GitHub CLI

• GitHub CLI stands for command line interface for operating GitHub
• Installation instructions are here
• But I don’t recommend using this